Thermally Augmented Cork-based Thin Insulation Coating (TACTIC)

热增强软木基薄绝缘涂层 (TACTIC)

• 批准号: 76777
• 金额: $ 19.18万
• 依托单位: CORKSOL UK LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=76777
• 关键词: Thermally; Augmented; Cork; based; Thin

The TACTIC project will take the existing CorkSol product Thermocork, a sustainable cork based insulating material and reformulate it with nano additives to improve its thermal performance. Thermocork is easily and cost effectively installed and can be used to insulate hard to treat houses. Around 7.7 million UK houses are uninsulated, solid wall construction dwellings and many residents in these houses suffer from fuel poverty, meaning that they struggle to heat their homes due to high fuel bills, caused by heat loss. People in fuel poverty are more likely to suffer underlying respiratory health issues, which increases the severity of viruses such as Covid-19\. Providing a cost effective solution to poorly insulated houses will improve the underlying health of a large proportion of he UK population.Covid 19 has also had a significant impact in the construction and home improvement industry. The private sector housing repairs and maintenance market saw a 39.8% drop in the three months to May 2020 as a result of the Covid pandemic. Providing a new innovative material that can be used to insulate hard to treat housing to will help generate a new market opportunity for both private homes and also social housing.TACTIC will reformulate CorkSol's existing Thermocork insulation system with the addition of candidate nano additives to enhance its thermal performance to allow a 10mm coating to have the same equivalence as 50mm of mineral wool and to be applied at a lower cost than alternatives. The new formulation will be tested at both laboratory and real-life scale, where it will be applied using CorkSol's existing aerosol spray method. The project will also examine the market for this new material and produce marketing plan to help generate interest in the core target market of hard to treat homes, especially those in the social housing sector.The project partners are CorkSol, a successful UK company that has in place an existing product that is sourced sustainably and a network of approved, trained applicators and Teesside University, whose academics have the technical skills needed to work on the product reformulation and testing needed. The project outcome will be a next generation of Thermocork with enhanced thermal properties that can be used on the hard to treat, uninsulated homes that are large part of the UK housing stock.

该战术项目将采用现有的Corksol Product Thermocork，这是一种基于软木塞的绝缘材料，并使用纳米添加剂对其进行重新制定，以改善其热性能。 Thermocork易于易于有效地安装，可用于隔热难以治疗房屋。大约有770万英国的房屋是没有绝缘的房屋，固体墙壁建筑住宅，这些房屋中的许多居民遭受燃料贫困的困扰，这意味着由于热量损失造成的高燃料费用，由于高燃料费用而努力加热房屋。燃料贫困的人更有可能遭受潜在的呼吸健康问题，这会增加诸如COVID-19 \等病毒的严重程度。为隔热不良的房屋提供具有成本效益的解决方案将改善大部分英国人口的基本健康。私营部门的住房维修和维护市场在截至2020年5月的三个月中，由于共同大流行，下降了39.8％。提供一种新的创新材料，可用于隔离住房，将有助于为私人房屋和社会住房带来新的市场机会。TACTIC将重新构造Corksol现有的Thermocork隔热系统，并增加候选Nano添加剂，以增强其热性能，以使其与10mm的涂层相同，以使其与50mm的羊毛和零件相同。新的配方将在实验室和现实生活量表上进行测试，并将使用Corksol现有的气溶胶喷雾法应用。该项目还将检查这种新材料的市场，并制定营销计划，以帮助对难以治疗的房屋（尤其是社会住房领域的核心目标市场）产生兴趣。项目合作伙伴是Corksol，Corksol，Corksol，一家成功的英国公司，现有的产品可持续可持续采购，并且由批准的，受过训练的申请者和Teesside University网络提供了需要的技术，其技术需要进行技术的验证，并需要进行技术的验证和验证产品的工作和验证的产品。该项目结果将是下一代热门，具有增强的热特性，可用于难以治疗的无隔离房屋，这是英国住房库存的很大一部分。